Sentences with phrase «unequal education systems»

A test that just reinforces socio - economic status will just serve to create two separate and unequal education systems.

Not exact matches

America has a uniquely unequal system of higher education.

Higher education is evolving into a caste system with separate and unequal tiers that take in students from different socio - economic backgrounds and leave them more unequal than when they first enrolled.

They have profited from the creation of a separate and unequal shadow education system at the expense of students, their families and all taxpayers.»

It's easy to argue that the current system provides equal pay for unequal work, as two teachers with the same education and experience can vary widely in their effectiveness in the classroom.

The impact of this idea is being fiercely felt today with state legislatures spending billions of tax dollars to fund separate, unfair and unequal systems of publicly funded education choices, including private school vouchers championed by Betsy DeVos and Jeb Bush.

Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education ruled that separate was inherently unequal and put an end to dejure segregation, many students of color — particularly black, Hispanic, and some Asian American and Pacific Islander students — still have to fight for their constitutional right to a high - quality public education in what has emerged as a system of de facto school segEducation ruled that separate was inherently unequal and put an end to dejure segregation, many students of color — particularly black, Hispanic, and some Asian American and Pacific Islander students — still have to fight for their constitutional right to a high - quality public education in what has emerged as a system of de facto school segeducation in what has emerged as a system of de facto school segregation.

«When we talk about whether or not education is the great equalizer, I don't even think we can ever get there, if the funding system is so unequal and inequitable,» Hinojosa said.

Research on vouchers in Chile and other countries show that vouchers would create a dual system of education — separate and unequal.

The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities (CCM) and several organizations that provide services to families and children across the state of Connecticut argue that the state's current education system perpetuates inadequate and unequal state aid for public schools, and that the broken ECS formula is not based on a rational, evidence - based assessment of the actual cost of education.

In a broken education system where outcomes are most unequal for low - income and minority youth, Green Dot is founded on the premise that tomorrow's youth must possess «Ànimo», and we are willing to do what it takes to ensure all students are prepared for college, leadership and life.

Learn more about our beliefs, America's long history of unequal access to great schools, and what students are doing to improve education for their family and friends still in the K - 12 system.

For Meeler, it was an eye - opening encounter with the opposite end of the state's separate and unequal public - education system.

This draft is a detailed plan to develop school leadership aimed at strengthening and improving the public education system while addressing one root of the existing problem of unequal access to quality education — state and local leadership «capacity.»

By comparative standards, America has a weak welfare state, a decentralized education system, a segregated and unequal social geography, an underprofessionalized educational field, and very high expectations for its schools.

These policies undermine public education and facilitate its replacement by a market - based system that would do for schooling what the market has done for health care, housing, and employment: produce fabulous profits and opportunities for a few and unequal outcomes and access for the many....

The author highlights numerous obstacles to achieving an equitable education system for all students: poverty, inadequate social supports, limited early childhood opportunities, re-segregation; unequal access to quality and certified teachers; low - quality curricula; differential placements in advanced and college preparatory classes, tracking of students, and dysfunctional teaching and learning environments.

8) National: Jennifer Berkshire and Noliwe Rooks discuss segrenomics, «the combination of the segregation that continues to define education in the US, and economics — whole industries that make money off of our unequal system.

«By enshrining selection into our education system the prime minister is wilfully ignoring the overwhelming evidence that selection at 11 leads to a more unequal country.»